Christmas Recipes:
Edible Gifts No.1 of 4 - Florentines
By Paul Curran
Christmas recipe makes: 12
Calories per biscuit: 170
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 8-10 minutes
Not suitable for freezing
Christmas recipe ingredients:
- cherries, 25 g (1 oz)
- almonds, flaked 40 g (1.5 oz)
- butter, unsalted 60 g (2.5 oz)
- sugar, caster 50 g (2 oz)
- cream, double 30 ml (2 tbsp)
- sunflower seeds, 25 g (1 oz)
- mixed peel, chopped 20 g (0.75 oz)
- sultanas, 20 g (0.75 oz)
- flour, plain white 15 g (0.5 oz)
- chocolate, dark plain pieces 125 g (4 oz)
Christmas recipe instructions:
- Take the almonds and crush slightly. Prepare roughly cut pieces of
cherries.
- Prepare a solution of sugar in the butter and bring to the boil.
Away from the heat, mix in flour, almonds, cherries, sultanas, mixed
peel, sunflower seeds and cream.
- Grease a sheet of baking paper and place heaped teaspoonful
amounts of the mixture from step 2 onto it ensuring there is enough
room for expansion during cooking.
- Bake till the edges are golden brown. 180 degrees centigrade (gas
mark 4, 350 F). About 7 minutes. Take out of the oven and use a
plain large metal biscuit cutter to make rounds by pushing into the
biscuits. Bake again until golden brown.
- Cool for a couple of minutes before removing to a wire rack for
complete cooling.
- Repeat steps 3-5 for the remaining mixture from step 2.
- Prepare melted chocolate by heating in a bowl over water at
boiling point. Then take each biscuit and dip it into the chocolate
so all the edge is covered. Place on non-stick paper till cooled.
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